Overview

• Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, in his Berlin bunker, alongside Eva Braun, whom he married shortly before their deaths.
• Hitler ordered the cremation of his and Eva Braun’s bodies in the Chancellery garden as Soviet forces advanced to within 1,000 meters of his location by April 28, 1945.
• The Nazi regime, under Hitler’s leadership, caused over 68 million deaths during World War II, including 64% civilian casualties, and left Germany with over 7 million fatalities.
• Hitler’s policies, formalized at the 1942 Wannsee Conference, prioritized the systematic extermination of Jews over military pragmatism, undermining the war effort.
• His refusal to authorize the surrender of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad and other irrational military decisions exemplify his ideological fanaticism and disregard for human life.